Biodiversity and Evolutionary Trees—An Activity on Biological Classification

To accompany the lecture series Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines.

Construct evolutionary trees by sorting seashells.

Go to the online activity.

Download the Teacher Guide as a PDF file.

Download the shell card file as a PDF file (black/white or color).

Survival of the Fittest—Battling Beetles

To accompany the lecture series Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads.

Download the Teacher version as a PDF file or a Word document.

Download the Student version as a PDF file or a Word document.

Download the Selection Coefficient Excel workbook.

Survival of the Fittest—Variations in the Clam Species Clamys sweetus

To accompany the lecture series Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads.

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Download the Student version as a PDF file or a Word document.

Download the PowerPoint Presentation.

Gene Switches—A Model

To accompany the lecture series Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads.

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Download the Student version as a PDF file or a Word document.

Mirror-Tracing Activity

To accompany the lecture series Making Your Mind: Molecules, Motion, and Memory.

Download the mirror tracing activity instructions (1 MB PDF file)

Drug Adherence Activity

To accompany the lecture series AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic.

Download the adherence activity instructions (1 MB PDF file)

Download Protocol 1 data sheet (0.2 MB PDF file)

Download Protocol 2 data sheet (0.2 MB PDF file)

Download Protocol 3 data sheet (0.2 MB PDF file)

Planaria Regeneration Activity

To accompany the lecture series Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration.

View a documentary on the relationship between planaria regeneration and stem cells.

11 minutes 46 seconds
Large: Play: MOV / WMV  |  Download: MOV (114 MB)/ WMV (156 MB)
Small: Play: MOV / WMV  |  Download: MOV (38 MB)/ WMV (39 MB)

Download the planaria activity sheet (0.8 MB PDF file)

Download the planaria data sheet (0.4 MB Word document)

Pedigree Analysis Activity

To accompany the lecture series Learning from Patients: The Science of Medicine.

Download the pedigree analysis document (250 KB PDF file)

Download the pedigree analysis answer key (11 KB PDF file)

Molecular Menagerie—A Molecular Modeling Activity

To accompany the lecture series Scanning Life's Matrix: Genes, Proteins, and Small Molecules.

Download the molecular menagerie document (808 KB PDF file)